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  Vegas 8 and DVD Architect 5 Pro

  Posted by Sadio Mot on December 4, 2008 at 7:52 pm

  Hi everyone, hope all is well.

  I recently purchased Vegas Pro 8 and DVD Architect Pro 5.

  I am interested in editing a video in vegas Pro 8 and than using that video as the content(s) of my dvd which would be created in DVD Architect Pro 5.

  I found this link which I think explains what I need to do.

  https://www.custcenter.com/cgi-bin/sonypictures.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1105&p_created=1092239421&p_sid=*LctRxkj&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MTY0LDE2NCZwX3Byb2RzPTIyOSw1NjYmcF9jYXRzPTAmcF9wdj0yLjU2NiZwX2N2PSZwX3BhZ2U9Mg**&p_li=&p_topview=1

  I have 2 questions:

  1. The link mentioned above, is this the best way of accomplishing what I want to?

  2. If i follow the above format…. when making my dvd….. will the video have to be re-rendered? essentially, I do not want any quality loss to occur… or miniminal quality loss at that.

  Thanks 🙂

  – Sadiq

  Joseph Ptak replied 17 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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• 

  Mike Kujbida

  December 4, 2008 at 8:15 pm

  Sadiq, a heartfelt welcome to the Vegas community.
  I’m sure you’ll enjoy your stay with us 🙂

  Now to answer your questions.

  1. Yes.
  Just make sure to render using the AC-3 template, give it the same name as your MEPG-2 file (i.e. video.mpg and video.ac3) and save both to the same folder. If you do it this way, DVD Architect will automatically load the audio file as soon as it loads the video file.
  If your video has a lot of stills in it, render using Best mode as this will help maintain image quality.

  2. No.
  As long as the final video isn’t over (approx.) 70 min., you’ll be fine. If it’s over that length, you’ll have to use a bitrate calculator to determine optimum render settings.

  The Vegas Pro 8 help file has some pretty good tutorials built into it so make sure to check those out.
  Also, Sony has some introductory tutorials on their site.
• 

  Steve Rhoden

  December 4, 2008 at 8:22 pm

  That is exactly how it should be done.
  Following that work-flow requires no further compression
  in DVD Architect…which of course will result in a pristine
  finished DVD.

  Steve Rhoden
  (Cow Leader)
  Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
  Portfolio at:
  http://www.youtube.com/hentys
• 

  Joseph Ptak

  December 19, 2008 at 5:14 pm

  OK – I used Architect Pro (trial) and successfully created a blu-ray disc (but it took 6 hours for 90 minutes of SD mpeg2 files)! But it is not recognized on my new Sony blu ray dvd player, which reads the disc but shows no menu. I used a new buffalo burner (it claims 6x speed but only burned a 6x disc as 2x)!

  Any options? In architect I just did a file-new and chose blu-ray for the dvd type.

  Joe

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